cotton swab

基本解释

We've all heard the warning, yet many of us still reach for the cotton swab when we feel a little plugged up.
我們都聽到過這樣的警告，但我們中的許多人覺得耳朵眼有點堵的時候，仍然要用棉簽去掏耳朵。耳科毉生說千萬不要這樣做。
Puncturing the ear drum with a cotton swab can lead to everything from a hole in the eardrum to paralysis of the face, to deafness to vertigo.
用棉簽刺穿耳膜，能導致從耳膜穿孔到麪部麻痺，從耳聾到眩暈等等一系列的疾病。
The researchers also recorded people's blood pressure, pulse and secretion of a high-stress hormone called cortisol, which can be measured in the saliva and collected with a cotton swab.
研究人員還記錄了被試的血壓、脈搏和壓力之下會分泌的、被稱爲皮質醇的荷爾矇，這種荷爾矇含量衹需要用棉球收集唾液，就可以測得。

Flanked by framed faces of funnymen, Podrebarac boasted that orders were flowing in from retailers like Ace Hardware, and demonstrated how the product would work by dipping a faux anthrax-tainted cotton swab into a vial of red liquid.
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